This celebrity became even more popular after being exposed of having multiple girlfriends
Chapter 265 - 245: Using the Profit Card

Chapter 265: Chapter 245: Using the Profit Card

Even though Wu Mu had always been seen differently in everybody’s heart, this move was undoubtedly a bit abstract.

It felt like they couldn’t quite grasp why he would do something like that.

Everyone originally had high hopes for Wu Mu’s new album sales. It might not reach the previous album’s 9.6 million sales, but a third of that, around two to three million, should be achievable, right?

And while just two to three million might not seem like much, it’s actually enough to rank in the top fifteen digital albums domestically.

Of course, that’s not counting those top-tier artists who jokingly release albums with just one song and then sell it for three to five yuan as a humor album.

It’s a ranking of serious albums.

Getting two to three million sales was enough to prove Wu Mu’s power and enough for him to be considered among the top-line capable singers domestically.

However, all this was based on the assumption that he would seriously promote and release it.

If he would seriously promote it, taking into account his previously released good songs, everyone believed that many would buy and listen.

But now...

Many people started to have doubts.

"Did we get it wrong? Is Wu’s album just a joke like those other popular acts, not seriously made?"

"It’s a possibility. He wrote so many songs over the past six months. Does he really have more material for a new album?"

"It couldn’t really just be an album made for fun and thus not promoted seriously, could it? That would be a waste of my expectations."

"No, that’s not right. Didn’t Sun Yueqing and Lu Yao say they heard the songs from his album and liked them?"

"I won’t mention Sun Yueqing, those who know, know. But you’d trust Lu Yao?"

Online, everyone was discussing fervently, guessing about Wu Mu’s puzzling moves.

Cai Wanhai, an industry insider, knew more than the public.

He had heard that Wu Mu’s album was written for a drama series sharing its name and wasn’t just for fun.

But he still really didn’t understand Wu Mu’s approach.

After deliberately inquiring and finding out that Wu Mu seriously didn’t contact anyone for promotions and planned to just upload it directly after recording,

He suddenly realized his own new album might not need to be rescheduled.

He might, perhaps, could actually beat Wu Mu!?

Cai Wanhai felt quite ambitious.

Facing the fully promoted Wu Mu, he felt there was definitely no hope, both in terms of capability and popularity; the gap was a bit too big.

But his full promotion against Wu Mu’s complete lack of promotion... he felt it might not be impossible to take him on!

Online, there were all sorts of comments, but since no parties involved responded and there wasn’t any sensational news, it didn’t spark widespread discussions after briefly appearing on the real-time hot search.

Until another week later, when three music platforms simultaneously started a reservation activity for Wu Mu’s new album on their homepages.

Only then did it finally make it to a top position on the hot search list again.

Many people were curious what the results would be for Wu Mu’s new album, his comeback after becoming popular again.

...

"Go and reserve my brother’s new album on all three platforms! It’s free, they aren’t charging."

Wu Mu’s fan Zhang Mengqi immediately shared the reservation link in her little group with friends as soon as the activity launched.

Her Zhou Yu fan friends were speechless.

Feng Zheng: "You’re really treating us like Wu fans, aren’t you? We have to help reserve his new album upon release?"

A Cloud of Cotton Candy: "Exactly, exactly, this is a Zhou Yu fan group, Wu fans stay away!"

I’m Just a Kid: "I dare not reserve it. A lot of people in the major group know my account. If they see I reserved Wu’s new album, my persona would totally collapse."

Watching her friends’ replies, Zhang Mengqi snorted twice and, as usual, sent out a red packet.

Feng Zheng: "(Reservation screenshot) Send another, and I’ll help your brother buffer the numbers with my alternate account."

A Cloud of Cotton Candy: "I got two dimes from ten yuan! Send a personal one, or I’m going to start bashing your brother right now! (Reservation screenshot)"

I’m Just a Kid: "For these three dollars, I’m going all in!"

"These Zhou Yu fans still decided to boost his rival’s data for the sake of some lucky money packets."

"It’s just that her friend Feng Zheng was a little confused, ’Qi Qi, what’s the use of boosting Wu’s data, Wu doesn’t care about this kind of data at all. He barely promoted it himself, and he won’t thank you for boosting his data.’"

Zhang Mengqi explained that they didn’t understand, "He doesn’t need to be grateful, just seeing his performance improve fills me with a sense of accomplishment! I’m just waiting for his new album’s sales to take off and dominate the scene!"

"Hehe, actually being his fan is quite fun. Even though he doesn’t interact, there’s always a lot of rhythm around him, and often various anti-fans come out to slam him, only to be slapped in the face by his performance turning things around. It feels like being part of a thrilling male protagonist story!"

Zhang Mengqi tried to tempt her friends to join her in supporting him.

But her idol-chasing friends also said, "Heretic! Loving idol’s performance, is that even true love?"

Zhang Mengqi felt that she certainly was in true love.

After having her friend Meng help boost the data, she sent the reservation link to the Wumu fan group she had joined.

However, there wasn’t much need for her to post it, as everyone had already started discussing it.

"His new album reservation has started, and it’s already reached thirty thousand, seems to be increasing quite fast."

"It just went online, and the platform gave some internal resources for promotion, it’s definitely going to increase fast, but after this phase, without his own promotion, it will probably lose momentum."

"I don’t know why he isn’t promoting, especially since it’s his first album, with his prior reputation, it could easily attract people to buy and listen. By not promoting it, it’s a complete waste of the reputation of his first album after his comeback."

"Who knows with him, he is always so whimsical. Those who haven’t reserved, go reserve one for him, reservation is free. You can decide whether to buy or not when it’s officially on sale, based on the reviews, @everyone."

"I’ve already reserved it for him on Tencent Music, should we also boost his data on other platforms?"

"No need to boost data, just showing some support is enough."

"Huh? You’re talking about boosting data, aren’t you? That’s irrational, stripping your fan status!"

The group started posting ’stripping your fan status’ memes again.

Zhang Mengqi, having just boosted the data, guiltily repeated the memes along with them.

...

"Boss, half a day has passed, and now the reservation count is 57 million!"

Inside Wumu Company, Shu Mei anxiously approached Wu Mu.

It had been almost six or seven hours since the reservation event went live, and the total number of reservations across the three platforms was only 570,000.

This number was undoubtedly relatively low.

These were free reservations that didn’t even cost money, and it was still the time when traffic was at its highest.

And yet, this was the number they had.

That’s far from their target of two to three million in sales.

Not to mention compared to Mo Mo’s album sales of over five million.

"Boss, it’s really due to insufficient promotion. Many people don’t even know that we are about to release a new album and have started reservations."

Shu Mei also wanted to persuade her boss to spend some money on promotion.

With such a lag in promotion, it seemed too wasteful for his first album’s hype!

Shu Mei was very anxious if it wasn’t for the fact that reservation numbers couldn’t be repeated to boost growth, she would have been tempted to spend all her saved-up pocket money to boost the sales.

Yet Wu Mu wasn’t anxious at all.

"570,000? That’s quite a lot?"

He hadn’t even promoted it, and he hadn’t used the performance card yet, and this number was already beyond his expectations.

It could only be said that the reputation he had built up in the singing field over the last half-year wasn’t for nothing.

Most people were still very excited and interested in his new album.

As for the lag in promotion and many people not knowing about it?

Well, don’t worry, we’ll catch up soon."

Wu Mu opened the system panel and pulled out the billion-dollar Profit Card he had drawn earlier.

He planned to use this card right away.

Before, he had considered whether to save it for investing in a larger film and television project later.

But then he thought, it’s not like he couldn’t draw another card, so he decided not to save it and use it now.